The Times
November 26, 2003
Blunders that set the Camden Ripper free to kill
By Ian Cobain and Michael Horsnell

A SERIES of "outrageous and unacceptable" blunders that allowed a serial
killer to strike again and again were laid bare after he was jailed for life
yesterday.

Police discovered one of Anthony Hardy's victims lying naked on his bed,
blood oozing from a head wound, yet he escaped prosecution when a
pathologist decided that she had died of natural causes. After that error,
Hardy was committed to a psychiatric hospital, only to be set free by a
panel of lay people which either ignored psychiatrists' warnings of the
danger which he posed or failed to read his medical notes. Within two
months of his release he had struck twice more, luring prostitutes back to
his flat, suffocating them, cutting up their corpses and disposing of their
remains in wheelie bins.

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